Ellen Albertini Dow
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Ellen Rose Albertini Dow (November 16, 1913 – May 4, 2015) was an American film and television character actress and drama coach. She portrayed feisty old ladies and may be best known as the rapping grandmother Rosie in The Wedding Singer (1998), performing "Rappers Delight". Dow's other film roles include elderly lady Mary Cleary who "outs" her grandson in Wedding Crashers, Disco Dottie in 54, the recipient of Christopher Lloyd's character's slapstick in Radioland Murders and a choir nun in Sister Act. She was best known to small screen audiences for her guest appearances on sitcom The Golden Girls. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Albertini Dow,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Sister Act (1992)
as Choir Nun
Wedding Crashers (2005)
as Grandma Mary Cleary
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
as Choir Nun
Patch Adams (1998)
as Aggie
Road Trip (2000)
as Barry's Grandma
The Wedding Singer (1998)
as Rosie
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
as Mrs. Coulson
54 (1998)
as Disco Dottie
My Blue Heaven (1990)
as Nun
Eight Crazy Nights (2002)
as See's Candies Box (voice)
Problem Child 3 (1995)
as Lila Duvane
Ready to Rumble (2000)
as Mrs. MacKenzie
Munchies (1987)
as Little Old Lady
Radioland Murders (1994)
as Organist
Blood and Concrete (1991)
as Old Lady
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling (2009)
as Mrs. Bessler
Carnival of Souls (1998)
as Mrs. Meltzer
The Invited (2010)
as Natalie Shaw
Frank the Bastard (2015)
as Dora
Annie's Point (2005)
as Louise Tette
Longshot (2001)
as Ms. Fleisher
Space Case (1992)
as Betsy
Going to the Chapel (1988)
as Grandma Haldane
American Drive-In (1985)
as Allison
Not Another Not Another Movie (2011)
as Rose
The Blue Hour (2007)
as Anabella
Fat Girls (2006)
as Mildred